New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-05
ARE ANARCHISTS AT WORK /?
SIXTH ATTEMPT TO BURN OUT A PAPER.

ANOTHER FIRE IN THE "NEw-YoRKER HEROLD y
oFFIcE-sTRIcT PRECAUTIONS VAIN.
For the sixth time within six months unknown mis-
creants supposed to be Ana hsts or extreme Social
ists sst IRE yesterday tho fvsstory brick building
NO. FrAnkfort-st In which are the counting
editorial composing and press rooms of the New
Yorker Herold" and the sNew-Yorker Zeitung" ("
German daily. weekly and Sunday papers. The ftin
attempt II the incendiaries was made on April IL,
whom Just before daylight on Sunday morning fire
was discovered in the building which got beyond
troll and gatted the place causing loss of $25 OOO
The IRE yesterday was extingui,hed after damage
amounting only to about $25 had been caused.
The hre marshal and the proprietors more uys-
tfcd about the last attempt than about any which
preceded It The smell of smoke at o'clock attracted
the attention of Mr. Rede, the city editor who with
elght compost aud boy, an apprentice. at
work Oh the :op door. II first thought that the
smoke came from the stereotyping room or foated
through the windows from tho outside. But tho ire
quent hrcs had made the editor suspicious. He soon
found that the smoke did not from these sources
and he began search. The second, third and fourth
floors were not occupied. On tho third hoor the tire
was discovered. making rapid headway In pile OF
papers and some bound nes that hear ed up near
the centre of tho room. An alarm was sounded and
In few minues the insurance patrol from Murray-st
dashed into the building With fre-extinguisher
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the fame.
There was every evidence that the fire had been
started by an incendiary hand among the paper
rubbish. Fire Marshal Sheldon arrived quickly
and made thorough investigation. He found
that warned by former experiences, Messrs.
Myer and voltman. the propr,etors of The
publications, had taken every precautIon to
thwart any act OF like nature. The Czar Of Russia
could not havs been more rigidly guarded than
the building. The top and the ground floors were
fba Anlw HnAxa -
the ground floor. boiled door at the bottom of the
first dight OF stairs nsd the counting room. the
only means oil communication between the lower room
and tie top floor. This door could only he opened
by some one behind the counter pulling u wire which
ran TO the bolt. Any one inside coming down stars
could only get out by ringing bell when the dovr
would be opened from behind the counter Thus the
movements OF persons mp down stairs were noted.
In addition watchman goes through the building
night and day every htteen minutes. At 2 p. m, the
day shit OF printers working the top hoor had
taken their coats gone home, and the night shit,
bong the eign, men aud tho boy mentioned above,
had gone duty. After that hour the only persons
known to have been In the room where the hre was
found were the watchman and Fritz, the apprentice
boy The watchuan was IN the third 1oor room ht-
teen minutes before the fire discovered He said
that he moth ng unusual there at that time rhs
boy Fritz ten minutes before the fire rang the bell at
the DOT OF the steps. Tho wire was pulled by the
cashier and Fritz catered the coanting-roo lie
asked MI. Myer, who vas at desk behind the
counter. for marked copy OF the paper OF certain
date. The request not unusua, and the paper
given to MIN aud he went back up stairs 10 the
posing room. He told Fire Marshal Sheldon tnlt he
noticed nothing unusual ~s he passed through the
vacant the third door.
Mr.. Myer said that he did not know what Fritz's
surname was; the boy had been with him tor two
iearn:nt ths printers trade ami he mad had
reason believe him other than an honest lad. Mr.
Myer said that he had been publishing his papers
since June l. when the rebuilding after ths disastrous
fire April IL complete. Ho is still uncertain
whether h Is the Ansrchists who tyiug destroy
his plant. He had formerly had trouble with the Ger
maa union OF tyoesetters but that had been smcably
iusted The anion had furnished him with several
Ansrohists among his compo,ltors. Probably one OF
them had taken IL into his head to practise his An
archstic principles.
The building belongs to the Catharine L. Wolfe
ettate aud is iuIly insured.